Cosmos a Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe volume 5
Cosmos a Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe volume 5
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2 Fahr. ). The old Sanscrit name of Gunung Se- meru was Mahd-Meru (the Great Meru) ; a reminiscence of the time when the Malays received Indian civilization — a reminiscence of the Mountain of the World in the north, which, according to the Mahabharata, is the dwelling-place of Brahma, Vishnu, and the seven Devarschi. F It is re- * Op. CiL, bd. Iii. , s. Lo/i ind Goppert, Die Tertidrflora avfderlnsel Java nach den Entdeckvngea von Fr. Junghuhn (1854), s. 17. The ab- sence of monocotyledons is, ...however, peculiar to the silicified trunks of trees lying scattered upon the surface, and especially in the rivulets of the district of Bantam ; in the subterranean carbonaceous strata, on the contrary, there are remains of palm-wood, belonging to two genera (Flabellariaimd Amesoneuron). See Goppert, s. 31 and 35.
fUpon the signification of the word Mcru, and the conjectures which Burnouf communicated to me regarding its connection with true" volcanoes. 283 markable that, as the natives of the plateau of Quito had guessed, before my measurement, that Chimborazo surpassed ^all the other snowy mountains in the country, the Javanese also knew that the Holy Mountain, Maha-Meru, which is but at a short distance from the Gunung-Ardjuno (11, 031 feet), exhibited the maximum of elevation upon the island, and yet, in this case, in a country free from snow, the greater dis- tance of the summit from the level of the lower limit of per- petual snow could no more serve as a guide to the judgment than the height of an occasional temporary fall of snow.
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2 Fahr. ). The old Sanscrit name of Gunung Se- meru was Mahd-Meru (the Great Meru) ; a reminiscence of the time when the Malays received Indian civilization — a reminiscence of the Mountain of the World in the north, which, according to the Mahabharata, is the dwelling-place of Brahma, Vishnu, and the seven Devarschi. F It is re- * Op. CiL, bd. Iii. , s. Lo/i ind Goppert, Die Tertidrflora avfderlnsel Java nach den Entdeckvngea von Fr. Junghuhn (1854), s. 17. The ab- sence of monocotyledons is, ...however, peculiar to the silicified trunks of trees lying scattered upon the surface, and especially in the rivulets of the district of Bantam ; in the subterranean carbonaceous strata, on the contrary, there are remains of palm-wood, belonging to two genera (Flabellariaimd Amesoneuron). See Goppert, s. 31 and 35.
fUpon the signification of the word Mcru, and the conjectures which Burnouf communicated to me regarding its connection with true" volcanoes. 283 markable that, as the natives of the plateau of Quito had guessed, before my measurement, that Chimborazo surpassed ^all the other snowy mountains in the country, the Javanese also knew that the Holy Mountain, Maha-Meru, which is but at a short distance from the Gunung-Ardjuno (11, 031 feet), exhibited the maximum of elevation upon the island, and yet, in this case, in a country free from snow, the greater dis- tance of the summit from the level of the lower limit of per- petual snow could no more serve as a guide to the judgment than the height of an occasional temporary fall of snow.
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